WORLD IP DAY CELEBRATIONS -2012

World Intellectual Property day was celebrated at
Queen Mary’s College on April 25th, 2012 as part of the World IP day
celebrations hosted by IPR Attorney Association. The program commenced with the
‘Tamil Thaai Valthu’ sung by the students of Queen Mary’s College. It was
followed by releasing the souvenir by Judge Mr. M.M.Sunderesh, Madras Highcourt,
and was received by Mr. Gunaselan, representative of the Malaysian Consulate,
Mr. Maxwell, Political and Economical Officer of US Consulate and the Mr.
Nikolay A. LIstopadov, Consulate general of Russia. The dignitaries addressed
the students of the importance about Intellectual Property Rights to every
Individual and the nation as a whole. The welcome address was given by Dr.Seethalakshmi, principle of Queen Mary’s college
On his note Mr. M.M.Sundaresh emphasized the importance on Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR). He voiced his opinions by saying that knowledge is a treasure
which should be protected by every individual.IPR protects every individual’s knowledge. He
quoted Thiruvalluvar’s thoughts which said that knowledge is the greatest
treasure of every man and hence it should be properly protected and utilized.
Hence creating awareness is the key goal of IPR.
Next Mr. Gunaselan addressed the students on the IPR day celebrations. Malaysian
IPR day was observed on April 28th and a pool of events like IPR run, IPR expo
and seminars were organized as part of the celebrations. He
also said that the creation of every man is his own rights.
Consulate general of Russia looked upon India as an emerging property power.
At his eyeshot, he said that only if the innovators and inventors are secure it
will drive them for more inventions. Hence he cited that creating IPR awareness
is a great idea.
Mr. Sanjai Gandhi. P briefed on what is IPR. Due to globalization knowledge is
widespread. This knowledge should be made secure by IPR act. For example, our
nation’s product Basmathi Rice was registered by America initially due to lack
of IPR awareness in our country. But only after the dispute broke out we fought
for our rights. Hence IPR awareness is the need of the hour. In western
countries IPR awareness is given at the school level itself. But in India it is
a million dollar question. Hence we are here to create IPR awareness at least at
the college level. Few noteworthy geographical indications were registered by
India. Some of them include Kancheepuram Silk Sarees, Thirupathi Laddu and many
more unique products. Mr. Sanjai Gandhi concluded with the following resolutions
of the IPR Attorney:
> The need to register khadi products
> Need for copyright registry in Chennai
> Additional rights to handloom and food products.
Next on Dias was the US consulate general who admired the tamil film industry
and the movie ‘Endiran’. He said that the fast flow of information led to data
piracy which led to intellectual piracy. For the record, US had lost about a
trillion dollars in 2008 due to this data piracy. This serves as a barrier to
quality products. Hence the entrepreneurs are less inclined to take risk and the
threat seems to widen. Hence IPR is gaining importance.
The blinds came together by distributing the IPR certificates to the deserving
students.